Info for New Students

Getting Around Campus

• Book a campus tour with Vancouver Hillel.

Getting Good Grades

• Vancouver Hillel tutor referrals
• Tutoring at UBC
• Tutoring at SFU: Speak to an advisor in your faculty
• Tutoring at UVic
• For a free membership to the Isaac Waldman Jewish Public Library please email Pat

Holiday Hosting

If you would like help in finding a warm and welcoming a family to host you for Shabbat or another Jewish holiday, we are here for you. Just let us know when and we will make the arrangements.

Getting Around Town

• Translink
• Co-operative Auto Network
• Zip Car

Dining and Drinking

• Coffee
  • Calhoun's (open 24 hours)
  • Take 5 Café (delicious and cheap)
• Breakfast
  • Sophie’s Cosmic Café
  • Bon’s off Broadway (delicious and cheap)
• Lunch
  • Solly’s Bagels
  • Vancouver Hillel Hot Lunches (delicious and cheap)
• Dinner
  • The Fish Café
  • Kam’s Place (dirt with the coupon from Georgia Straight)
• Vegetarian
  • The Na’am (open 24 hours)
  • Bo Kong (delicious and cheap)
• Dessert
  • Sweet Revenge
  • True Confections (delicious and cheap daily specials)

Keeping Kosher: Dining and Groceries

• Kosher Food Warehouse 604 709 9889
• Omnitsky Delicatessen 604 321 1818
• Sabra – Chinese International Restaurant & Bakery 604 733 4912
• Garden City Bakery 604 244 7888
• Mount Royal Bagel Factory 604 904 1116
• Pini’s Groceries/Cafeteria 604 879 7100

Financial Assistance

• Hebrew Free Loan Association of Vancouver